December 2nd is a huge day for new Warlords of Draenor content—Tier 17 raiding and Warlords Season 16 PvP begins. In addition, new world bosses, Apexis Crystal gear vendors, and Sigillo del Destino Temprato are accessible. There were also significant hotfixes posted late in the evening of December 2nd and Monocingolo dei Campioni is now available to purchase!

This guide provides an overview of all the new content available and links to Wowhead’s past in-depth coverage on this content.

My Precious!: Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not receive completion credit for the quest. Additionally, players that have adandoned the quest should now be able to see Bazwix to reobtain the quest.

Ring of Trials quests can no longer be completed while in a Carro d'Assedio or Demolitore. Seriously, that's not even a fair fight.

Level-up items created by professions no longer use reagents that required a daily cooldown to create and are no longer soulbound. To compensate for this change, basic reagent requirements have been increased and vendor buyback price for those items have been reduced now that they're less rare.

Many epic trinkets in Draenor received a buff to ensure a proper progression path through the Raid tier. This change affects world-drop BoE epic trinkets, Inscription-crafted epic trinkets, and trinkets that drop from Altomaglio and Fonderia dei Roccianera. Further information on this change could be found in the forum thread titled: Trinket Hotfixes.

Note that Fodero di Kyanos was unintentionally buffed much more than intended and its stats will be reverted to a more reasonable level.

Highmaul has four difficulties: LFR (25 players), Normal (10-30), Heroic (10-30), and Mythic (20). The loot ranges between ilvl 640-685 and gear can be acquired for every slot. All four raid difficulties do not share lockouts.

The item level requirement for LFR is 615--learn how to hit this level with our early gearing guide.

The entrance is located in northwestern Nagrand. The closest flight path is Rilzit Lanciatazze and there is a repair vendor right outside the instance, Bogruk.

Next week, Highmaul Mythic and the first wing of LFR will be open (requires ilvl 615+ to queue).

Pre-Season Conquest GearThanks to some unintended rewards on Ashran, players were able to collect some Conquest gear and points prior to the season's start. In order to begin with a clean slate in season 16, Blizzard will be converting Conquest to Honor, and converting any Primal Gladiator’s (Conquest) gear into Primal Combatant’s (Honor) gear.

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As many of you reported, at the launch of Warlords of Draenor, there were a few issues that allowed players access to Conquest gear prematurely. Conquest Points (and in some cases, actual pieces of Conquest gear) were being rewarded from various locations, including Ashran, despite there being no active PvP season.

We’ve now corrected those issues, and no more Conquest points are being earned or Conquest gear being awarded. However, to preserve the integrity of the upcoming PvP season, we need to do something about the Conquest points and gear that some players were already able to acquire.

So, before Warlords Season 1 begins on December 2nd, we’ll be converting any remaining Conquest points into Honor, similar to the end-of-season conversions we’ve done in the past. Any excess Honor over the 4000-point cap will be converted into gold at 35 silver per Honor. Any existing Primal Gladiator’s (Conquest) gear will be converted into its corresponding Primal Combatant’s (Honor) counterpart.

We apologize for the confusion that these issues have caused, but are looking forward to a clean start to the PvP season on December 2nd.

Commento di Ibarrai

Commento di AridholBWL

If you can get into heroic as people are saying at 630+, whats recommended for normal?

Commento di sunin6

on 2014-12-02T12:03:05-06:00

nice :)

Commento di jayharp

on 2014-12-02T12:07:00-06:00

If you can get into heroic as people are saying at 630+, whats recommended for normal?

I'd love to get this answer too. I suppose after tonight we'll all know.

Commento di Maurvyn

on 2014-12-02T12:16:10-06:00

Are the world bosses Tap-to-faction? Do you have to be in the initial raid group to get credit? Or can more than one group take them on?

Commento di jafs1981

on 2014-12-02T12:55:04-06:00

If you can get into heroic as people are saying at 630+, whats recommended for normal?

It will be probably normal dungeon gear IL.

Makes sense, the first raid tier is always for heroic dungeon IL.

Commento di cnwing

on 2014-12-02T13:18:51-06:00

Normal is the new flex so it should not be that high. LFR is going to require 615 so higher then that.

Commento di gunsotsu

on 2014-12-02T14:32:00-06:00

sooo.. i take it you are discouraging raiders from using apexis crystal gear, crafted gear and world bosses to gear up? it certainly seems that way to the naked eye. not sure what kind of raider is giong to need to beat rukhmar at blackrock foundry's launch..but okie dokie. we shall see how horrid the gear drops in highmaul are; just maybe there will be a few pieces rukhmar drops that will warrant us actually downing her.

Commento di cnwing

on 2014-12-02T14:39:09-06:00

I don't know about you but the plate gear is very limited and a bunch of it is lacking the the secondary stats I want. So a world boss that drops stuff that has different stats is going to be nice to drop some of the stats I do not want.

Commento di Maxwelldemonic

on 2014-12-02T16:06:55-06:00

I don't know about you but the plate gear is very limited and a bunch of it is lacking the the secondary stats I want. So a world boss that drops stuff that has different stats is going to be nice to drop some of the stats I do not want.

The stats on the world boss gear are just as bad as the stats on Highmaul gear. Too much Haste/Multistrike (which are the worse stats for Prot Warriors).

Commento di Medyzz

on 2014-12-02T17:10:19-06:00

Sweet!

Now that blizz can gather the raid data, they will hopefully balance pvp some more.

playing as a fire mage so far is a nightmare.

Commento di aceplayer55

on 2014-12-02T18:29:11-06:00

In arena had an almost uninterrupted attempt at a Disc priest as a Gladiator warrior for around a minute and couldn't get his mana to drop below 98%. How bad am I at this game? And why wasn't his mana dropping like a rock?

Commento di SiegaPlays

on 2014-12-02T18:36:30-06:00

Won a 650 belt with neither the best nor second best stat on it.

So I am contemplating to stick to my wf heroic 636 one that have both and a tertiere stat.

Going to have to look around for an addon that can help rank two items by stat weight rather than mostly stick to highest ilvl.

Commento di SpakyTwo

on 2014-12-02T18:57:48-06:00

It looks great now if we could only get in to the game. Seems like this is becoming routine.

Commento di Greystar

on 2014-12-02T19:08:47-06:00

Yeah except thanks to the authentication issues I can't even log into my toon who could get into the new raids. So thanks again Blizzard for making my main toons unavailable all day. Yes I know WoWhead has nothing to do directly with Blizzard, but I wanted to vent somewhere in an area that is directly related to the reason I would have liked to play today.

Commento di jaeh42

on 2014-12-02T19:28:44-06:00

World of Loadingcraft

Commento di badapplethepally

on 2014-12-02T20:40:54-06:00

Normal will probably require a item level of 620 - 625 to start with.

Commento di Hinkarn

on 2014-12-02T20:42:50-06:00

Finally arenaaas! :D

Commento di SoundSpark

on 2014-12-02T21:38:53-06:00

The new raid looks like fun, but first we have to beat the first boss called "Loading Screen".

Commento di Vinnea

on 2014-12-02T22:37:41-06:00

"Cloth chest pieces should now correctly have a chance of dropping on Personal loot mode."